extreme
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Warmer seas help to fuel more extreme weather.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
But it’s not as extreme of an intervention as Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pledge to preserve the euro or Ben Bernanke’s bazooka program in response to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, experts say.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Clients tend to be active people, but not extreme people in regular life, she says, adding that “doing it together brings families and friends closer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
During that period, temperatures were so extreme that protons and neutrons had not yet formed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Tell him to take his witness away directly,” said my guardian to the clerk, in extreme disgust, “and ask him what he means by bringing such a fellow as that.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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"Anyone who chooses to put themselves into the extremes of nature like this is a hero in my eyes," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
As tai chi doesn’t push extremes, it may feel counterintuitive in Western culture; but that’s part of its power, Swanson says, likening tai chi to water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The tests were designed to verify that the company's sensors remain accurate across the temperature extremes they could encounter during descent to the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"El Nino may influence tropical cyclone activity in the Central and East Pacific and could alter the risk of floods, wildfires, and other weather extremes elsewhere," it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
I tell myself that the guys being wowed and the girls being revolted is better than the other way around, but both extremes are a little much.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins
A prominent King's man, nay, a Queen's man, which was held to be something extremer, he played, however, an individual part in the struggle.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
We who have no vocation for the extremer ranges of sanctity will surely be let off at the last day if our humility, asceticism, and devoutness prove of a less convulsive sort.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
It has as yet been practised by no poet at all approaching the first class, except Verlaine, and not by him in its extremer forms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016
Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."
From Time Magazine Archive
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“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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These are not the extremest instances that Fletcher's letters afford of his habit of "spiritualising."
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
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